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Be Here Now is the third studio album by English rock band Oasis (vocalist Liam Gallagher pictured), released in August 1997. The album was highly anticipated by music critics and fans after the band's worldwide success with Definitely Maybe (1994) and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995). Be Here Now became the United Kingdom's fastest selling album to date, selling over 350,000 units on the first day of release. Oasis' management company Ignition sought to control access to the album before its release to prevent overexposure, but its tactics resulted in the alienation of members of the media. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine, having given it five stars on its release, said that it is often thought of as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money." (Full article...)

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Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon kill at least three people and injure more than 140 others.

In a snap election called after the death of Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro (pictured) is elected President of Venezuela.

In golf, Adam Scott wins the Masters Tournament.

The Government of India announces Bollywood actor Pran as the winner of the 2012 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Five UN peacekeepers and seven civilian staff members are killed by rebels in Jonglei, South Sudan.

At least 37 people are killed and 850 are injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian province of Bushehr.

A gunman kills 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia.

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April 16: Yom Ha'atzmaut in Israel

1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revolt when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.

1853 – The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Thane.

1881 – Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist.

1917 – Vladimir Lenin (pictured) returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.

1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".

2001 – India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.

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The Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) is a species of freshwater fish found in temperate regions of Europe and Asia. The aggressive fish is known to reproduce rapidly, leading to problems when it is introduced to foreign bodies of water.

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